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Dear Parents: It’s Time To Get Serious About Vaccines

Luvs Diapers has a hilarious set of commercials out about the marked difference between first time moms … and what happens when #2 rolls around. You know—the hyper-sanitized, super safe, ultra-cautious little bubble we moms live in with our first kid? Yeah, we all chill out a little when we realize not to sweat the small stuff anymore.

And that’s ok. It’s ok if your diaper bag isn’t perfectly organized anymore; it’s ok to hand your kid a screen (yeah, I said it) playing cartoons so you can get through a long flight; it’s ok that sometimes all the kid will eat is boxed mac and cheese.

That’s ok.

What’s not ok is the fact that quite a few of us are actively choosing to put our children (and other people’s children) harm’s way, because we’ve been scared into believing vaccines are dangerous.

I get it. There are quite a few people out there claiming that vaccines can be more dangerous than the diseases they supposedly prevent.

Who in their right mind would ever subject their child to such Russian roulette?

I’m not claiming to be an expert. It’s precisely for that reason that I’m inclined to listen to those who ARE. And as I’ve done so, here are some things I’m begging you to consider, parent to parent. Let’s go through a few common questions:

Disease was already on the way down before vaccines, and now vaccines get all the credit?

When comparing medical care at the turn of the 20th century to that of 1800, or 1700—or even farther back, one thing is clear: we were learning how to take better care of the sick. And—living conditions, nutrition, and other core factors were simultaneously improving. As a result, yes—you could accurately make the claim that death rates were declining.

But here’s the thing: vaccines deal with the problem before it becomes a problem to treat. Discrediting the affect that vaccines have had (and the evidence is legion) on preventing death simply because death was declining prior to vaccines would be tantamount to discrediting a cure for cancer on the basis that cancer deaths had already been declining due to improving cancer treatment methods that occurred prior to the discovery.

Nearly everyone born before 1960 had measles and we didn’t have mass disabilities and death. What’s the big deal about a couple cases of measles?

So here’s the claim: the MMR vaccine (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) causes autism and gastrointestinal disease. Who says? British scientist Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy (at least at first). Here’s what you need to know:

Pseudo-celebrity Jenny McCarthy then helped popularize the theory by publicly buying into the idea that the MMR vaccine caused her son’s autism.

Yes, vaccines CAN have side effects—just like any medication or treatment. The question—as examined by over 100 far more credible medical studies looking vaccine safety—is whether or not those side effects are devastating and common. Each one of these studies proves they’re not.

If we have to choose between 100+ verified, credible medical studies, and the poor workmanship of one man with a vested personal and financial interest in knocking the MMR vaccine out of the running … well, I’ll let you decide.

Ok …but what about all the toxins?

Mercury. Aluminum. Formaldehyde. Not exactly things you’d sprinkle over junior’s banana purée, right? And yet, they’re part of our vaccines?! Here’s the thing: we have to go deeper than names simply sound menacing.

So basically, the same cell line could have been created using cells from a born human being. It didn’t HAVE to come from abortions, and the abortions were not performed expressly for this purpose. It just so happened that they had access to these cells at that time … and they used them to start the cell line. No abortions are performed today to create more cell lines (they already exist) and no aborted “fetal tissue” is being injected into your children’s bodies.

To paraphrase Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI),it’s unfortunate that those cells were chosen. But it’s done. Again, vaccines today are not created using cells from new abortions; abortions are not performed to provide these cells today. And the result of using those cells once to create that cell line has resulted in lifesaving measures that ultimately protect and preserve children—something we should embrace.

Moms, Dads—it’s our kids’ lives at stake here. And as we start to see a resurgence in deadly diseases that were once all but eradicated … what will you choose?

Mary Ramirez is a full-time writer, creator of www.afuturefree.com (a political commentary blog), and contributor to The Chris Salcedo Show (TheBlaze Radio Network, M-F, 3-5. ET). She can be reached at: afuturefree@aol.com; or on Twitter: @AFutureFree

One thought on “Dear Parents: It’s Time To Get Serious About Vaccines”

I read your blogs regularly and even repost them on my FB wall. But I must disagree with you on this one. Do more research……. Check out Suzanne Humphries MD for a start. She has several videos you can view on YouTube as well as some books. Of course there are many other physicians out there who are also against vaccinations especially the amount given to a newborn baby’s immature nervous system. Have you viewed the movie Vaxxed?
Please keep writing your blogs. The United States citizens need to hear more sanity and truth in the political arena. But perhaps probe a bit deeper before writing on such a health topic. I have been an RN for 26 years. And no, I do not get vaccinated with the yearly flu vaccine………..